The Cleveland Show is an American animated series that premiered on September 27, 2009 as a part of the "Animation Domination" lineup on Fox. The series was created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel as a spin-off from Family Guy, which was also created by MacFarlane.
In the beginning of the series, Cleveland Brown and his son, Cleveland Jr., move from Quahog, Rhode Island to the fictional town of Stoolbend, Virginia.
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The Cleveland Show is an American animated series that premiered on September 27, 2009 as a part of the "Animation Domination" lineup on Fox. The series was created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel as a spin-off from Family Guy, which was also created by MacFarlane.
In the beginning of the series, Cleveland Brown and his son, Cleveland Jr., move from Quahog, Rhode Island to the fictional town of Stoolbend, Virginia.
In the closing scene of the season seven Family Guy episode "Baby Not on Board", Cleveland breaks the fourth wall by mentioning to Quagmire that he is getting a spin-off.
The theme song originally contained a line referring to Cleveland's "happy black-guy face," but this was replaced with "happy mustached face" to make the song more racially sensitive.
His newly introduced family includes his new wife in her late thirties, Donna Tubbs (Sanaa Lathan); Donna's teenage daughter, Roberta Tubbs (originally Nia Long, but now portrayed by Reagan Gomez-Preston)...
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